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“Critical Empiricism” in American Legal Studies: Paradox, Program, or Pandora's Box?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

David M. Trubek  and
John Esser
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Winter 1989 , pp. 3 - 52
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1989 

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